Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: [00/80] 2.6.35.6 stable review | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:16:35 -0400 |
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On Saturday, September 25, 2010, Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:49:57PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday, September 24, 2010, Greg KH wrote: >> >This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.35.6 release. >> >There are 80 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response >> >to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, >> >please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper >> >subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, >> >please respond with it. >> > >> >Responses should be made by Sunday September 26, 17:00:00 UTC >> >Anything received after that time might be too late. >> > >> >The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: >> > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.35.6- rc1.gz >> >> Hi Greg; I just pulled this about an hour ago, built it from a make >> oldconfig based on a flawlessly running 2.6.35.4. > >Please cc: me on messages, I don't read lkml as well as I should these >days due to travel. > >> 3 things I call regressions. >> >> 1. On rebooting to it, and launching kmail, cpu went to 100% of >> whatever core it skipped to on a 4 core amd phenom box with 4G of ram. >> Normally, kmail on a restart will check and rebuild its indices,
The email corpus is around 7Gb.
>> taking maybe 4 or 5 minutes to do this up till now, during that time >> keyboard/mouse interactivity lags a split second. This time it was 44 >> minutes before I got my machine back. At times the keyboard went dead >> for minutes at a time. I even went to the kitchen and got fresh >> batteries for it, only to have everything I had typed blind 2 minutes >> before, show up on screen while there was no batteries in it. > >Odd, can you try reverting the patch below to see if it makes things >better? I need to drop it as Jens said it might cause problems. Let me >know if that solves the problem or not please.
This evening I should be able to report.
>> 2. That I think is separate from the login screen, there I had no >> keyboard or mouse for a minute, but something finally registered and I >> was able to log in then. >> >> 3. My usb tree is not fully populated, this has been a frequent problem >> for the last year or so, udev often does not wait for responses long >> enough to trace a several hubs tall tree to the last branch so I have >> to crawl under and unplug the missing stuff later, which is then >> properly recognized when I plug it back into the same socket on the >> same hub. One of my often missing printers is 4 hubs away in the >> basement. > >These both sound like the same issue, you might want to work to resolve >them.
I will give this patch a shot this evening, today's schedule is already shot, there's a sport show at Stonewall Jackson Lake & resort.
>Oh, and 4 hubs distance, that's pushing the limits of USB, one flaky >cable and you are not going to have a working printer... > I may in fact have a flaky hub, the first one is a 7 port Alps brand and I've found it now has a bad port or 2. Lightning is a bitch, scheduled for a replacement now that I know about it.
>thanks, > >greg k-h
Thanks Greg, I'll be in touch.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) In buying horses and taking a wife shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God.
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